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What Is One Of The Example Of Divine Violence In Scripture?

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1. One of the examples of the type of divine violence in scripture is instant executioner. One example of this in the Bible is when Lot’s wife turns around to look at Sodom and Gomorrah as they are leaving, and she is instantly turned into a pillar of salt. A big problem with this is that God does not specify why she was turned into a pillar of salt. There is no reason directly given to why this event occurred, and puts fear in people. IT shows that God can decide that He did not like what she did, and just turns her into a pillar of salt to make a point. Another example of a type of divine violence is mass murderer. An example of this is the flood story. With the flood God decides that the world is evil, so He is just going to wipe out everyone except a select few. Once again it puts fear in the hearts of people because there is no real reason why God needed to take this action, and not one of love and a change of heart. A third example of divine violence is divine warrior and that is shown with the plagues because God targets people that are not directly in control of what is happening. God attacks all Egyptian first-born children, who have done nothing to His people, but still are persecuted. A fourth example of divine violence is divine abuser and this correlates with the story of Abraham and Isaac. God demands Abraham to sacrifice his only son in His name. Only to tell Abraham that it was a test, and that he has passed and shown his obedience to God. God here is abusing
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